'Frontcourt' to replace F, C

by **Lamrock** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:16 am

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/85449 ... signations

In a shockingly common sense move, the NBA is finally removing the center designation by combining C with the forward positions. So much for Roy Hibbert becoming a perennial all-star...

by **Dc311** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:52 am

It is just for the allstar game.

by **Lamrock** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:38 am

Indeed it is. Given this and that the rookie team isn't positional at all, I could see this applied for the All-NBA teams in the future.

by **Dc311** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 3:46 am

Those teams mean nothing in the regular season.With the exception of the rookie/sophomore game,it is not like they actually play against each other.

by **Lamrock** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:01 am

Yeah, it's just for fun. Do you think there's any harm in this change?

by **Patr1ck** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:15 am

I think it's a kick in the ass to anyone who plays the Center position. Not only does it mean they have to outperform other centers to make the all star team, but other forwards as well.

by **Lamrock** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:18 am

by **dopeboy** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:40 am

Finally they've done something that makes sense. Although it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the NBA (or should I say David Stern) did something borderline crazy as their next move.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:33 am

Pdub wrote:I think it's a kick in the ass to anyone who plays the Center position. Not only does it mean they have to outperform other centers to make the all star team, but other forwards as well.

That was my initial thought too, but there are really only a few centres in the league that'd be inclined to vote to the All-Star Game and two of them - Howard and Bynum - are still likely to get voted in anyway. I don't mind the change.

by **Patr1ck** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:43 am

Yeah it kind of goes both ways. Before, a really good forward might not be able to make the all star team if there were a lot of forwards in his conference that were more popular and putting up better numbers. I guess this improves that.

Hopefully they expand further and allow three guards if they need to.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 11:53 am

Another approach would be to allow fans to vote for five players they want to see in the game, and leave it up to the coaches to devise the starting lineups.

by **benji** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:04 pm

It's to get rid of a stupid problem with the coach voting that often resulted in two reserve centers being chosen even though nobody wanted any.

by **Patr1ck** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 12:57 pm

Yeah it kind of goes both ways. Before, a really good forward might not be able to make the all star team if there were a lot of forwards in his conference that were more popular and putting up better numbers. I guess this improves that.

Hopefully they expand further and allow three guards if they need to.

by **benji** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 1:04 pm

Why would they need to allow three guards?

by **Patr1ck** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:52 pm

Why would they need to allow three forwards? Why take away the center position? I'm just saying they might as well be flexible based on the voting.

by **benji** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:58 pm

Because they wanted to get rid of the dumb setup that kept putting lesser centers on the teams?

They should have just made the entire team fan-voted.

by **atlwarrior** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 2:58 pm

I like the move

by **_Steve_** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:06 pm

Not a bad move after all. But what becomes of players who play 2 and 3 like VC, John Salmons, Danny Granger and Iggy? There's still that stupid differentiation between guards and forwards...

by **benji** on Thu Oct 25, 2012 6:23 pm

The same thing as always, the league assigns them to backcourt or frontcourt?

by **Patr1ck** on Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:00 am

What about midcourt or center court? Why not just expand the size of the court dimensions and put more players on the court?

by **benji** on Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:38 am

Well, personally I feel that they should put guards on the shoulders of bigs. And that also it should be on trampolines. And there should also be 25 and 50 point baskets.

But Stern never talks to me anymore.

by **Patr1ck** on Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:42 am

Yes! Trap doors into acid pits beneath the basket to discourage anti-marketing defensive practices. Random oil spills on the court, a faux backboard with no glass, flagrant fouls just result in penalties and 5 on 4's for 1:30. We should be making this into a video game.

YouTube · by **shadowgrin** on Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:19 am

Look at you fags and your loser ideas for the NBA. When you could be putting that creativity into the improvement of Slamball.

by **air gordon** on Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:27 am

Lamrock wrote:

19 points. 8 rebs. 2004 all star MVP if the East won. :wink:

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